CT scan unscrambles rare, ancient egg

From Bozeman, Mont., at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology

A tangled heap of bones and bone fragments found inside an ancient bird egg may

soon be reassembled thanks to high technology–and scientists won’t even have to

crack open the egg to do it.

Huge flightless birds called elephant birds strolled their Madagascar homeland

until they went extinct about 400 years ago.